Corangamite is a name you'll hear a lot today. It's a highly diverse electorate in Victoria, taking in outer Geelong, the coastal communities like Torquay, Barwon Heads and down the Great Ocean Road to Apollo Bay, as well as the rural communities of Colac and Winchelsea. Darren Cheeseman is the ...

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As Soviet leader in the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev introduced Glasnost and Perestroika- opening and democratising the state that Ronald Reagan called 'the evil empire'. Ultimately those reforms led to the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. In the West, he was feted as the greatest statesman of the ...

"These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had access to so much knowledge, and yet been so resistant to learning anything."Thomas Nicohols. Tom Nichols' book The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters grew out of an blog post he wrote out of ...

Corrupt leaders of troubled poorer countries tend to take the money and run when an uprising happens. And they don't have to try too hard to find a place to put their loot. Western democracies may have laws to deal with the proceeds of foreign corruption but Professor Jason Sharman says such laws are ...